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Soil fiber composites came from waste plastic material such as plastic and tire rubber have been found effective in improving the CBR value. This experimental study was conducted to determine the significant difference of waste tire rubber chips and waste plastic strips as admixtures for soil stabilization.Soil stabilization is the permanent physical and chemical alteration of soils to enhance their physical properties. The term soil stabilization means the improvement of the stability or bearing power of the soil by the use of controlled compaction, proportioning and or the addition of suitable admixture or stabilizer. Today, due to the fast growth of populations and development activities, it led to discharge of huge wastes. Disposal of these different wastes produced from different industries and urban areas has become a great problem. These materials, most of which are non-biodegradable posed environmental threat by polluting the nearby locality. This report presents the various tests conducted on fiber reinforced soil with varying fiber content and different aspect ratio. Their results are analyzed such that significant difference of these two admixture which are waste plastic strips and waste tire rubber chips are determined. Plastic strips and tire rubber chips are obtained from waste material are mixed randomly with the soil. A series of CBR tests were carried out on randomly reinforced soil by varying percentage of plastic strips and tire rubber chips to find out the change of CBR value of the fiber reinforced soil with respect to unreinforced soil. Results of CBR tests demonstrated that waste plastic strips have a greater value in bearing capacity than waste tire rubber chips.